 | 1837 - 704 pagine
...name of Allah, with a few other words interjected, as long as the vocal organs can sustain the task; ' accompanying their ejaculations or chants ' with a...' surprising length of time without intermission.' Some of them excel in mountebank feats, of thrusting iron spikes into their bodies, eating glass or... | |
 | John Foster - 1844 - 590 pagine
...of Allah, with a few other words interjected, as long as the vocal organs can sustain the task ; " accompanying their ejaculations or chants with a motion...a surprising length of time without intermission." Some of them excel in mountebank feats, of thrusting iron spikes into their bodies, eating glass or... | |
 | John Foster - 1844 - 432 pagine
...name of Allah, with a few other words interjected, as long as the vocal organs can sustain the task; " accompanying their ejaculations or chants with a motion...long habit they are able to continue these exercises fora surprising length of time without intermission." Some of them excel in mountebank feats, of thrusting... | |
 | Edward William Lane - 1860 - 656 pagine
...they exclaim, or chant, " La ilaha illa-ll&h " (There is no deity but God), or "Allah! Allah! All&h !" (God! God ! God !), or repeat other invocations, &c.,..."arghool," and by persons singing religious odes ; and some darweeshes use a little drum, called " b&z,"1 or a tambourine, during their zikrs : some, also, perform... | |
 | John Porter Brown - 1868 - 432 pagine
...they exclaim or chant, 'Ld ilaha illa 'llah' (There is no deity but God), or 'Allah! Allah! Allah!' (God, God, God), or repeat other invocations, &c....players upon a kind of flute called nay, or a double reed pipe called arghool, and by persons singing religious odes; and some Durweeshes use a little drum... | |
 | John Murray (publishers.) - 1880 - 370 pagine
...performance of ZÍ'ÍTS. The chief features of these zikrs are continued invocations of Allah, accompanied by a motion of the head, or of the whole body, or of the arms; and the performance of a dance. There are several colleges or monasteries (telikeeyehs) of the diti'erent... | |
 | Eliza Roxey Snow - 1884 - 616 pagine
..."Allah! Allahl Allah!" (God! God! God!) or repent other invocations until their strength is nearly exhausted, accompanying their ejaculations or chants with a motion of the head, or of the whole body. I felt a great curiosity to witness their manner of worship— fortunately an opportunity presented.... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1888 - 662 pagine
...performance of zikrs. The chief features of these zikrs are continued invocations of Allah, accompanied by a motion of the head, or of the whole body, or of the arms ; and the performance of a dance. There are several colleges or monasteries (tekkeeyehs) of the different... | |
 | Edward William Lane - 1908 - 682 pagine
...they exclaim, or chant, " La ilaha illa-llah" (There is no deity but God), or "Allah! Allah! Allah ! " (God ! God ! God !), or repeat other invocations,...without intermission. They are often accompanied, at Superstitions 251 intervals, by one or more players upon a kind of flute called "nay," or a double... | |
 | Frank Hill Perrycoste - 1910 - 286 pagine
...202. 132 A Zihr is a repetition of the name of God, or of the profession of his unity, or such like. their ejaculations or chants with a motion of the head, or of the whole body, or of the arms":133 and a grand performance by the dancing dervishes in the mosch is thus described. About forty... | |
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(God ! God ! God !), or repeat other invocations, &c, over and over again, until their strength is almost exhausted ; accompanying their ejaculations or chants with a motion of the head, or of the whole body, or of the arms. From long habit they are... 
